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Misleading Information

Misleading Information
For Wednesday, I read chapter four Our Man in Baghdad, and chapter five Rewriting History, in the book The Best War Ever, by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber.
In chapter four the authors argue how US politicians created a third party to blame all of their mistakes on. They were called the National Iraqi Congress (INC). The INC managed to position itself as a central source of what we now know as discredited intelligence information. Since the United States put so much trust in to the INC, in the long run it made us look like fools. Although there is no way to fully know who you can/cannot trust in a time of war, The United States could have stepped back and realized they were moving too fast to have any concrete results in the war. Because we are such a fast pace nation, we tend to forget sometimes that the best thing to do is to sit back and really analyze the situation before doing anything about it. Since we did move so quickly into this war, we made wrong decisions and put our trust in people and government organizations such as the INC.
In chapter five the authors argue how the Bush administration has tried many times to rewrite the history of the Iraq war. He used fear to get people’s attention, and when that didn’t work he praised the American Army and said we are almost victorious and about to win the war. When that didn’t work he blamed other people for the mislead information that he got from sources he supposedly can’t name. For eight years President Bush made absurd choices that dug this country and even Iraq into a whole. What I don’t understand is why he isn’t being held accountable for what he and his administration have done? It’s time to stop playing the blame game and start apologizing for all the mistakes they made in this war.